Climatists must be pushed off the Earth Day stage

Climatists must be pushed off the Earth Day
stageActivists need to
refocus on known environmental problems Ottawa, Canada, April 20, 2012:
“Climatism, the misguided belief that man-made
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are
destroying Earth’s climate, has overwhelmed the
environmental movement,” said Steve Goreham, Executive
Director of the Chicago-based Climate Science Coalition of America
(CSCA) and author of Climatism! Science, Common Sense and the
21st century’s Hottest Topic. “If activists want
to be taken seriously on Earth Day, then they must divorce
themselves from this extreme form of environmentalism and
focus only on problems we know to be real.”

Tom Harris, executive director of the
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) which is
headquartered in Ottawa, Canada observed, “Climatism is
damaging the credibility of the environmental movement and
diverting governments, concerned citizens and corporations
away from solving important air, land and water pollution
challenges. It is no coincidence that, as the weak
scientific foundation of the climate scare is revealed, the
public’s interest in environmental issues in general is
plummeting. For their own credibility, indeed for their
survival as a meaningful movement, practical
environmentalists must cut climatists loose.”

“Despite the failure of the hypothesis of dangerous
human-caused global warming, there is a very real climate
problem,” said ICSC chief science advisor, Professor Bob Carter of James Cook
University in Queensland, Australia and author of Climate: the Counter Consensus.
“It is the risk associated with natural climate phenomena,
including short term events such as floods and cyclones,
intermediate events such as drought and longer term warming
and cooling trends.”

“The great danger posed by
current global warming hysteria is that it distracts
attention and resources away from development of sound
policies of adaptation to the natural climate variations
that are a certain part of our future,” explained Carter.
“That only 5% of the world’s spending on climate is
dedicated to adaptation (ref: October 27, 2011, Climate
Policy Initiative report) is a travesty of the first
order.”

New Zealand-based Terry Dunleavy, ICSC founding chairman
and strategic advisor added, “All sensible people are
environmentalists. Besides the affinity most of us feel
towards the natural world, we rely on the environment for
the security and well-being of our societies. It's important
to reduce, re-use and recycle so as to minimize pollution
and protect species at risk. Those are the right reasons for
Earth Day, not concerns about the forecasts of unverified
climate models that have little meaningful connection with
the real world.”

Goreham sums up, “The world
spent $240 billion reducing our carbon dioxide emissions in
2010 and more than $1 trillion over the last ten years.
This means that twice as much is annually spent on
“decarbonization” than total global foreign aid, while
billions continue to live in poverty, without electricity,
proper sanitation or clean drinking water, and millions die
each year from disease. The proponents of Earth Day need to
reassess their
priorities.”ends

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